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title: 🦛 Chonkie ✨
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Ever found yourself making a RAG pipeline yet again (your 2,342,148th one), only to realize you're stuck having to write your ingestion logic with bloated software library X or the painfully feature-less library Y?

_WHY CAN'T THIS JUST BE SIMPLE, UGH?_

Well, look no further than Chonkie! (chonkie boi is a gud boi 🦛)

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    Clean, CHONK, Embed, Refine and Store your data - all from one library!
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    Install, Import, CHONK - it's that simple!
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  <Card title="Lightning Fast" icon="bolt">
    CHONK at the speed of light! zooooooooom
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    Supports your favorite tokenizers, chunkers, embeddings and vector DBs
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    CHONK in Python, JavaScript or via our API. Chonkie is there wherever you
    need it
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    psst it's a pygmy hippo btw! Moto Moto approved
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